Re: Input for Upcoming Book
Re: Input for Upcoming Book
- Subject: Re: Input for Upcoming Book
- From: Steven Angier <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:10:38 +1100
On 17/1/03 8:06 AM, "Charles Ross" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I'm working on a book about building applications with AppleScript.
Poor guy! ;-)
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I'm familiar with three methods for creating GUIs with AppleScript:
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Dialog Director (and Dialog Studio), FaceSpan and AppleScript Studio.
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I've also read that Smile can be used to create custom dialogs of more
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complexity than possible with display dialog, so perhaps that's a forth
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way to do it.
There is also 24U OSAX (similar to dialog director) -- and our two most
common GUI tools, FileMaker Pro and HTML (through AppleScript CGI scripts).
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My question is, is there interest in structured tutorials on creating
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applications for Mac OS 9 with Dialog Director and FaceSpan?
Neither of these are very relevant moving forward.
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Or is the
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majority of interest in AppleScript Studio?
No thank you!
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The two topics that I plan to cover that I hope will set this book
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apart from other offerings is a very in depth covering of handlers and
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script objects and tutorials on building full-fledged GUI applications.
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Any an all input is welcome.
Sounds like your target audience will be the advanced-to-expert scripter? If
so, then step-by-step instructions of building "Hello, world!"-level
applications won't really cut it, and if you are using AppleScript Studio,
then you might find it difficult to build anything much bigger.
Still, I applaud your efforts.
[Putting on his flame-retardant suit...]
Steven Angier
Macscript.com
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